Amazon RDS for Oracle is ending support for X1 Database Instances on January 22, 2025

Amazon RDS for Oracle is ending support for X1 instances on October 22, 2024. We strongly recommend that you migrate your existing X1 instances to a newer generation instance types before October 22, 2024. We recommend migrating to the X2iedn instance type, which is built on the AWS Nitro system and is featuring the third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) processors with up to 50 percent higher compute price performance than comparable X1 instances.

Starting October 22 2024, we will begin disabling the creation of new Amazon RDS for Oracle database instances using X1 instance families.

Starting on January 22, 2025, automated customer upgrades will begin and occur in the customers defined maintenance window. During the upgrade, the equivalent X2iedn instance type will be chosen and upgraded. For example, if you are running db.x1.16xlarge you will be upgraded to db.x2iedn.16xlarge. Due to the volume of upgrades the update will occur over multiple weeks and can take up to 3 cycles to occur.

For additional information about our DB instance offerings, please review the AWS documentation[1] page. For pricing, please refer to the Amazon RDS for Oracle pricing[2] page. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to AWS Support[3].

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rds/index.html [2] https://aws.amazon.com/rds/oracle/pricing/ [3] http://aws.amazon.com/support